Why is it that when you are stuck at “what should we cook today” the answer is always “make some aloo!” Potatoes are like this…extremely popular and have multipurpose usage.

And did you always think that eating a potato will make you fat?
Well, don’t – it is a surprising source of vitamin C and provides useful amounts of starch, thiamine and niacin and around a hundred grams will provide about eighty calories.
Little did you know!

Ingredients for Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Sweet potatoes boiled 2 large

Olive oil 2 tablespoons

Shallots peeled 15-20

Garlic 3-4 cloves

Butter 2 tablespoons

Salt to taste

Crushed black peppercorns 1/4 teaspoon

Green chillies chopped finely 2

Juice of 1 lemon

Fresh cream 2 tablespoons

Alfalfa sprouts 2 tablespoons

Method

Step 1

Halve the sweet potatoes horizontally and peel them. Heat olive oil in a non-stick pan. Chop shallots and garlic in a chopper and add to this pan and sauté. Add butter and mix and continue to sauté till soft.

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is the most celebrated face of Indian cuisine. He is Chef extraordinaire, runs a successful TV Channel FoodFood, hosted Khana Khazana cookery show on television for more than 17 years, author of 150+ best selling cookbooks, restaurateur and winner of several culinary awards. He is living his dream of making Indian cuisine the number one in the world and empowering women through power of cooking to become self sufficient.
His recipe portal www.sanjeevkapoor.com is a complete cookery manual with a compendium of more than 10,000 tried & tested recipes, videos, articles, tips & trivia and a wealth of information on the art and craft of cooking in both English and Hindi.